Bill Lear wrote:
> Take my brother, for example.

take _my_ brother .... please.

> He's livid that we have debt and is
> certain that we must cut it or suffer greatly.  His arguments derive
> from "common sense": if we were a family, we'd have so much income,
> spend so much, and have so much debt, etc., and he thinks our current
> government/public balances are out of whack with this simple picture.

this micro-view fits well with my characterization of the TP as "petty
bourgeois." Even a corporate view knows that this view is wrong:
corporations typically don't balance _their_ budgets.
-- 
Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own
way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante.
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